Jeremy Taylor Quotes
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~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge
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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could
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Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together
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Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit
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A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol
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The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
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Love is friendship set on fire.
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
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Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
~ Jeremy Taylor Quote
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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